. Catalogue of the Mesozoic plants in the Department of geology, British museum (Natural history) [Part III-IV] The Jurassic flora. Paleobotany; Paleobotany. 128 CAEPOLITHES. clearly the three basal ridges (Fig. C) and the well-defined tooth- Uke projections (A and B). Text-fig, 15. A seed from the Malton Museum showing the- testa (integument) and the cast of the embryo-sac. V. 9007. PI. III. Fig. 3. An internal cast, probably of C. conicus, showing a single median lidge across the broad end. Fig. 15.—Carpolithes conicus, L. & H. Drawing of a specimBn in the Maltore Museum. Nat. s


. Catalogue of the Mesozoic plants in the Department of geology, British museum (Natural history) [Part III-IV] The Jurassic flora. Paleobotany; Paleobotany. 128 CAEPOLITHES. clearly the three basal ridges (Fig. C) and the well-defined tooth- Uke projections (A and B). Text-fig, 15. A seed from the Malton Museum showing the- testa (integument) and the cast of the embryo-sac. V. 9007. PI. III. Fig. 3. An internal cast, probably of C. conicus, showing a single median lidge across the broad end. Fig. 15.—Carpolithes conicus, L. & H. Drawing of a specimBn in the Maltore Museum. Nat. size. V. 9005. Several casts of seeds, some with a single median ridge, as in V. 9004 (Fig. 5, PI. XIII.), others with three ridges meeting in the centre of the broad truncate end. Other specimens:—"V.^m^; V. 9008; 40,553 (Malton, Bower- bank Coll.); 40,580 (Kirby Moorside, Sean Coll.); 41,399 {Morris Coll.); 44,399 {Mantell Coll.); 52,604 (Malton, Morris Coll.):, 52,938 (Malton, presented ly ths Hon. Robert Marsham, 1878). Carpolithes diospyriformis, Sternberg. [Flor. A'orsvelt, iii. p. 37, pi. xxxvii. fig. 6, 1823.] (PI. XII. Fig. 7; PL XIII. Figs. 6-7.) 1823. Carpolites diospyriformis, Sternberg, Flor. Voi-welt, iii. p. 37, pi. xxxTii. fig. 6. 1825. C. diospyriformis, op. cit. iv. p. xl. 1845. C. diospyriformis, Uhger, Synopsis, p. 256. 1848. Garpolit/ies diospyriformis, Bronn, Ind. Pal. p. 239. 1S50. C. diospyriformis, linger. Gen. spec. foss. plant, p. 517. 1854. C. diospyriformis, Morris, Brit. Foss. p. 5. 1871. Carpolithus diospyriformis, Phillips, Geol. Oxford, p. 171, Diag. xxxii. fig. 2. 1894. Cycadinocarpus Lindleyanm (pars), Woodward, Lower Ool. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863


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